Splicing-tool.



No. 755,542. PATENTED MAR. 22, 1904. A. B. PROBASOO.

SPLIGING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 27, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented March 22, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

SPLIClNG-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,542, dated March22, 1904:.

Application filed May 27,1903. Serial No. 158,975. (No model.) I

To all w/wm it may concern:

Be itknown that I, ABRAHAMB. PROBASCO, a citizen of the United States,residing near Lebanon, Warren county, State of Ohio, have invented acertain new and useful Splicing-Tool; and I do declare the following tobe a clear, full, and exact description thereof, attention being calledto the accompanying drawings, with the reference characters markedthereon, which form also a part of this specification.

This invention relates to implements used for manipulating wire, moreparticularly for splicing pieces of it and where it is necessary tofirmly hold these wires to each other while their ends are manipulatedfor splicing them.

It relates more particularly to the construe tion of the tool for soholding the wires, while the splicing manipulation proper is executed byanother tool not concerned in this invention.

My invention consists, therefore, of this holding-tool and this mannerof construction as the same is described and claimed in the followingspecification and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 shows the tool in perspective view and the manner of its use.Fig. 2 is a side view of it. Fig. 3 is part of an edge View of thesame.- V

The tool consists, primarily, of two members A and B, connected to eachother by a pivot O. They are of flat metal bars and are connected withtheir fiat sides resting against each other, as shown. The longer partsof these members form the manipulating-handles a and 7). Their smallerparts contain the wireengaging jaws a and b and 6, the latter two beingarranged parallel to each other with a space between them, into whichjaw a may pass. Jaw a further has a notch 66 of such a size as to becapable of receiving wires of the largest size which it is expected tohandle.

It will be observed that there are three operative jaws provided in thistool and of which one on one side operates against two on the oppositeside and also into the space between them. The notch in the one jaw isso shaped that the wire therein when the jaws close cannot slip out andis crowded into the deepest part thereof, as best shown in Fig. 2. Thereis nothing to prevent the opposing jaws from obtaining an unimpededtight grip on the imprisoned wire, since there is nothing to prevent jawa from entering and advancing into the space between the two jaws b b,which latter press the wire down into the bottom of notch 00 and alsotend to bend the wire on each side of jaw thereby further intensifyingthe pinching effect. There is no possibility of either of the wiresslipping, as is frequently the case with the usual .pincers, where onewire-the one nearest the pivot and deepest in the jaws when onceengagedacts as an obstruction which prevents the jaws from closing downfully upon the other one.

The particular method of forming the splicing-joint proper has no directbearing on my invention. In the method shown the end of each wire to beconnected is closely wound around the other wire near the end thereof.Thus the end d of wire D is wound around wire E, the end 6 of which iswound around wire D.

F is the implement used for this winding. It has a hook f, whereby it isheld in place on the wire, while notches f engage the end to be woundaround. The manipulation is clearly shown in Fig. 1.

As to the practical construction of this tool not much need be said,since the same is very simple. In order to obtain the two jaws Z) 6 ofthe one member, a part b of this latter (member B) near its end issimply bent over, as shown, and arranged to be parallel to handle .7),with a space between for jaw a. This turned-over part b is of suflicientlength so as to reach down to pivot O, which passes through it and holdsit to its proper shape and position with the other operative parts ofthe tool.

Having described my invention, I claim as new- A wire-holding toolconsisting of two flat members which form the jaws and handles three ofthem, thereby also holding the bentthereof, a part of one member nearone end over part in position. 1 being bent over on itself, but with aspace In testimony whereofI hereunto set my sigbetween these contiguousparts, the edges of nature in the presence of two witnesses.

which parts form double jaws on one side, the ABRAHAM B. PROBASCO. othermember containing the complementary Witnesses: jaw being fitted into thespace between these 0. SPENGEL,

two parts, and a pivot passing through all ALBERT MOEBUS.

